Analytic philosophy in America : and other historical and contemporary essays /
In this collection of recent and unpublished essays, leading analytic philosopher Scott Soames traces milestones in his field from its beginnings in Britain and Germany in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, through its subsequent growth in the United States, up to its present as the wo...
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Introduction; Origins of the Essays; PART ONE: MILESTONES; 1 Analytic Philosophy in America (2008); 2 Methodology in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Analytic Philosophy (forthcoming); 3 Language, Meaning, and Information: A Case Study on the Path from Philosophy to Science; 4 For Want of Cognitively Defined Propositions: A History of Insights and Lost Philosophical Opportunities; 5 The Place of Willard Van Orman Quine in Analytic Philosophy (2013); 6 David Lewis's Place in Analytic Philosophy (forthcoming)
- 7 Kripke on Epistemic and Metaphysical Possibility: Two Routes to the Necessary A Posteriori (2011)PART TWO: HISTORICAL PROBLEMS AND CONTROVERSIES; 8 What Is the Frege/Russell Analysis of Quantification?; 9 No Class: Russell on Contextual Definition and the Elimination of Sets (2008); 10 Ontology, Analyticity, and Meaning: The Quine-Carnap Dispute (2009); PART THREE: CURRENT TOPICS; 11 Two Versions of Millianism (2012); 12 What Are Natural Kinds? (2007); 13 Vagueness and the Law (2012); 14 Toward a Theory of Legal Interpretation (2012)
